Pietro Aretino - Subverting the System in Renaissance Italy

Informationen zum Autor Raymond B. Waddington is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California! Davis! USA. The essays gathered together in this volume follow the career of the sixteenth-century courtier-poet Pietro Aretino. The essays consider his first comedy, La Cortigiana; his difficult transition to poligrafo, vernacular writer for the popular press, and his emergence as a satirist in the mid-thirties with the Ragionamenti. Zusammenfassung The essays gathered together in this volume follow the career of the sixteenth-century courtier-poet Pietro Aretino. The essays consider his first comedy, La Cortigiana; his difficult transition to poligrafo, vernacular writer for the popular press, and his emergence as a satirist in the mid-thirties with the Ragionamenti. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Preface; Part I Rome: Introduction! Cortigiana (La cortigiana! 1525); A mask for Aretino (Una maschera per Aretino). Part II Venice: Meretrix est stampificata: gendering the printing press; Pietro Aretino: the new man of letters; Go East: Pietro Aretino's flirtation with Constantinople. Part III The Satirist: Aretino's prostitutes: the ragionamenti; A satirist's impresa: the medals of Pietro Aretino. Part IV Religion: Pietro Aretino! religious writer; Aretino! Titian! and 'La Humanità di Christo'. Part V Influence: Before Arcimboldo: composite portraits in Italian medals; Volpone: Aretino's Venice and Jonson's Aretino; Index of names.

Product details

• Authors: Raymond B. Waddington, Waddington Raymond B.
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.01.2014
• EAN: 9781409464358
• ISBN: 978-1-4094-6435-8
• No. of pages: 260
• Series: Variorum Collected Studies; Variorum Collected Studies Series; Variorum Collected Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian, Literary studies: general, Italian, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800